Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps Micheal Barrett, Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force James Cody, Sergeant Major of the Army Raymond Chandler, and Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy Michael Stevens testified Wednesday before the House Appropriations Committee’s military construction and veterans affairs panel.

"'Commissaries are NOT closing!' They are just becoming unsubsidized so that it will be too expensive to shop there, driving down patronage so that the decision to close them will be because nobody shops there anymore."